#ElonMusk #Musk #speculation #true #false #politics #America #USA #Psicology #Society #imagination #Logic
https://blog.odicforcesounds.com/manipulatingPoliticalProbabilities.html
#speculation
Speculation Rules Improvements, by @tunetheweb (@matuzo):
After today’s announcement of Disney’s Sora deal, it’s clear that big IP is going to go the way of schlock. Every company that owns characters and settings will be trying to make a similar deal, and it’s going to result in an absolute nightmare of out of control slop. I can’t imagine how, in the long term, this is a good idea for the lifespan of most of those IPs.
I’m hoping that perhaps it means there may be a rise in interest in more bespoke, smaller, less commercially successful IPs and artists doing authentic, genuine, human-made work. At least after the short-term fascination with maniacally wrecking those larger IPs has run its course.
I saw a similar discussion on the movie market focusing on making films viable on a global scale instead of speaking to a specific audience. The upshot of the necessity for global success has meant most films that can’t connect with everyone in the entire world aren’t being made. And some platforms, like Netflix (for example) have filled in that niche in some ways.
I’m wondering if the upcoming tidal wave of big IP schlock will mean that smaller, less corporate IPs will flourish? Maybe? It’d be nice if that happens. Hopefully. We’ll see.
#Disney #Art #artistlife #speculation #Artlife #Illustration
🍪 Oh no, the #robots might crash the stock market, but first, let's make sure you can browse the internet like it's 1998! 🤖💥 Watch out, wealth! You're in danger of being... speculated about! 🤑
https://www.economist.com/interactive/graphic-detail/2025/11/05/how-much-wealth-would-be-destroyed-by-an-ai-stockmarket-crash #stockmarket #internet1998 #speculation #wealth #HackerNews #ngated
2025 in Review: What’s New in Web Performance?, by @debugbear.com:
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2025-in-web-performance
#performance #webvitals #lighthouse #apis #speculation #chrome #google #firefox #browsers #devtools #tooling #testing #mcp #ai #retrospectives #outlooks
Dynamic Business: Nicola Willis warns AI boom could trigger next global market crash
“It’s always important to remember that when the world does have a big cough or a big sneeze,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AI #boom #Business #continues #could #crash #dynamic #Global #market #NewZealand #next #nicola #NZ #overhyped #sparked #speculation #that #trigger #warns #will #willis
https://www.newsbeep.com/290580/
Donald Trump signals clarity on his choice for the next Federal Reserve Chair, fueling speculation in global financial markets.
#YonhapInfomax #Trump #FederalReserve #FedChair #Markets #Speculation #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=93211
#Valve is using the #SteamDeck and #SteamMachine to force a tighter baseline on #gaming #computer #hardware and #Linux support. Whatever they produce, pretty much every #VideoGame company has to make their games run passably on it, meaning it has to be optimized enough to run on whatever #GPU they might be shipping in whatever #RAM / #VRAM constraints the system has, and it has to be stable in #Proton.
It's the console that #Steam itself is selling, they don't want people asking "why doesn't this run on standard hardware? Will it not run on my hardware either?"
I think this will be good for the #software market in general, as we've seen massive slippage in basic optimization for very little actual gain.
Is Timothée Chalamet Leading a Double Life as the Masked Rapper EsDeeKid?
#TimotheeChalamet #EsDeeKid #CelebrityNews #ViralTheory #Wonka #TikTokFrenzy #FashionInspo #MaskedRapper #HollywoodStyle #EntertainmentNews #PopCulture #FanTheory #ViralCelebs #TrendingNow #Speculation #annakarolinaheinrich
https://news-annakarolinaheinrich.com/timothee-chalamet-esdeekid-rumor/
Christopher Luxon dismisses leadership speculation, vows to lead National into 2026 election
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he is “absolutely” going to lead the National Party into the next election…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2026 #absolutely #bishop #chris #christopher #claims #dismisses #dismissing #Election #going #Housing #into #job #lead #leadership #line #luxon #minister #national #NewZealand #next #NZ #party #prime #says #speculation #to #vows
https://www.newsbeep.com/268123/
Ah, the internet's favorite pastime: speculating wildly about Martian puddles 🌌💧—only to be thwarted by a digital bouncer with a penchant for the "429 Too Many Requests" cha-cha. 🚫👾 Move over, NASA; we've got error codes doing the heavy lifting in space exploration now! 🚀✨
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-liquid-mars.html #MartianPuddles #Speculation #InternetFun #ErrorCodes #SpaceExploration #429TooManyRequests #HackerNews #ngated
Some money lost in the markets today. Meanwhile, in finpress…
Reuters: Social media explains why markets keep going crazy - https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/global-markets-breakingviews-2025-11-20/
Top Trending Comics November Week 3 2025
https://comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/comic-book-previews/top-trending-comics-november-week-3-2025/
#comic books #comics #DC #DC Comics #Marvel #marvel comics #Image Comics #Indie Comics #Dark Horse #Comic Book Speculation #speculation #top ten #Top 10
Top Trending Comics November Week 2 2025
https://comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/comic-book-previews/top-trending-comics-november-week-2-2025/
#comic books #comics #DC #DC Comics #Dark Horse #Dark Horse Comics #Marvel #marvel comics #Top Ten #Top 10 #speculation #Comic Book Speculation
Because I don't have a huge to-do list today of course I'm reading about the origins of yaoi and yuri (more or less #WLW and #MLM in #anime, I think?). After not-very-much reading, I'm having this speculative thought:
It seems like, at least in anime, many of the earliest publicly-available MLM and WLW stories were marketed as lurid pulp, maybe analogous to England's "penny dreadfuls". This seems like it might have been because queer narratives were not welcome in mainstream media, so the only ones that got through to broad audiences were the queer stories published in horror or kink outlets, where relationships were depicted as abusive, ending in tragedy, or bundled with socially unacceptable behavior (e.g., lesbian couple who are mob hitwomen).
If the above was a thing (and that's a big If; I'm not deeply knowledgeable about this), then perhaps an entire generation or two of queer kids (and adults) found their sexuality mostly represented in very fucked-up contexts and with deeply fucked-up relationship dynamics. This would probably have an impact on relationship patterns in queer communities for quite a while.
As an attempted analogy: I'm imagining straight people in the USA never being taught about sex or attraction--the messages were only about shame and sin and straight people were shamed for expressing any romantic or sexual feelings. Then, from the 1950s to the 1970s, stories featuring romance and sex appeared in magazines that a person could actually buy. Of course all the sex- and relationship- and norms-starved straight people ate those stories up, but the only stories involving straight sex or romance available for 20-30 years were written by David Lynch and Anne Rice.
I wonder what my thoughts, feelings, prototypes, and expectations about #relationships and #sex would look like if all my formative sexual and romantic #media exposure (in a near absence of any other kind) was from Eraserhead and Queen of the Damned? What would my romantic/sexual self look like?
#random #yaoi #yuri #SpoutingOff #ProbablyWrong #speculation
"Your children will NOT be HUMAN."
#ai #dystopia #android #cybord #hybrid #errtling #science #biology #society #robot #future #scifi #writing #speculation #futurism #Levin #civilization
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoRM...
Michael Levin Explains the Fut...
Something is definitely happening in Valve land, as the KOMODO Steam Deck Store is being renamed KOMODO STATION tomorrow, November 13th.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/komodos-steam-deck-store-is-renaming-to-komodo-station-perhaps-ahead-of-the-steam-frame/
TL;DR: Maybe dreams aren't trying to tell you something, but instead might provide clues about how your generally well-meaning brain is trying to organize your memories.
Dream interpretation: Generally total BS, Barnum statements, carnival fortune teller stuff. BUT...
What if we look at dreams functionally (in a specific way) instead of as messages from our supposed unconscious? Instead of asking "what is this dream trying to tell me?" maybe we could ask "what cognitive processes is this dream a byproduct of, and can I glean any information about how my brain is trying to take care of me?"
My rough understanding is that dreams might be part of the memory consolidation process for memories active since the last sleep. My (also not expert) understanding of that process is:
If a memory of something on your mind during the day is still rememberable by night time, then it is already in long-term memory (LTM). There is no memory store with a duration between "seconds if I lose focus on the thought" (i.e., short-term memory/working memory) and "years and years" (i.e., long-term memory; LTM). In other words, 50 First Dates is probably not possible.
If the above is true as stated, then memory consolidation isn't "putting the memories into more permanent storage"--they're already there--it's "organizing the memory warehouse". Side note: Memory organization is, for most people and situations, the problem in "remembering": If LTM is organized more effectively for a particular situation, we are able to remember more as we need it.
Cognition is not "cold" and emotionless, it is generally "hot". Emotion seems to be a key part of how many (most? all?) of our thinking systems work. Therefore, LTM organization/consolidation probably involves thought/feeling composites, not just "thoughts".
LTM is an active, dynamic system. Many phenomena studied by psychologists point to LTM essentially organizing itself, constantly, in ways we're not aware of. This leads to forgetting, confabulated memories, and probably a good dose of prejudice and discrimination FWIW, but it is also the reason we can remember anything.
[Getting speculative]: Maybe the executive functions that organize LTM, including during REM/dream memory consolidation, have evolved to be helpful to us. As with most evo psych this seems difficult or impossible to prove, but also like maybe it could be a thing.
THEREFORE: Dreams might provide clues to what those possibly-helpful processes are doing with our memories.
When you hugged your ex-boyfriend's abuser and felt filled with warmth? When the terrible bad monster was coming for you and you were armed only with a Twinkie? When you watched insects eating each other and then one looked like your mom? When you were in a high-speed chase, constantly trying not to crash while driving a very twitchy Mario Kart-style vehicle? Your brain isn't trying to tell you something with those things. Those are just the echoes of what your brain's opinionated, active, mysterious, and maybe sometimes benevolent file management system is doing.
Some more concrete possibilities:
Anxiety dreams (e.g., naked in class without studying for the test) are the memory management system (MMS; just made that up) making sure you can easily access your memories about things that make you anxious when certain situations happen, because anxiety generally evolved to keep us safe.
Dreams about fucked-up behavior like murdering someone or making out with your brother-in-law or torturing an animal might be your MMS connecting those fucked-up thoughts (which everyone has, occasionally, because our brains are very imaginative) with a network of other thoughts and feelings so that they remain identified as fucked-up just in case you ever get an actual urge--you'll get the "Nah, that's fucked up" feeling.
Other fucked-up dreams might just be by-products of rational organization, like when you had sex with your cousin maybe there's no message, just your MMS making the connection that your cousin is, in some technical sense, fuckable.
Dreams about incomprehensible, bizarre shit might be your MMS trying to rearrange a chunk of your LTM classification system to incorporate new thoughts. For instance, maybe a lot of things need to get moved around and re-filed to create a little node/category for furries who make amazing cocktails.
Caveat 1: I do not have a broad or deep understanding of research on #dreams, #sleep, or states of #consciousness
Caveat 2: Because of the first caveat it's likely this is not a remotely original idea
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#bulle #Spéculation #Crise Derrière la course à l’#IA, des montagnes de dette s’accumulent https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/11/12/derriere-la-course-a-l-ia-des-montagnes-de-dette-s-accumulent_6653065_3234.html
Important read.
Opinion by William A. Birdthistle, who served as director of the Division of Investment Management at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2021 to 2024, comparing 1920s relatively unregulated financial markets to today's overheated stock market and unregulated assets.
"Trump Is Pushing Us Toward a Crash. It Could Be 1929 All Over Again."
#GiftLink #USpol #USpolitics #GovernmentRegulations #FinancialMarkets #Speculation
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